Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Karlovac In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Karlovac
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Karlovac The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Karlovac
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Karlovac Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Karlovac
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Karlovac The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley What's new? Most of my wife. Karlovac
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Karlovac Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Karlovac
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Karlovac "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Karlovac
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Karlovac You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Karlovac
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Karlovac "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Karlovac
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Karlovac No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Karlovac
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) May you never leave your marriage alive. "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Karlovac In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Karlovac
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Karlovac "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Karlovac
